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National Pride Provides Fuel for Djokovic and Nadal

With precious little time to rest after their brutal U.S. Open final, world number one Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal will be energized by national pride this weekend as they lead their countries into battle in the Davis Cup semi-finals.
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Weekly Jobless Claims, Manufacturing Figures Show Weakening U.S. Economy

Claims for unemployment benefits last week rose more than expected, hitting their highest level in more than two months. In addition, manufacturing in a key northeastern region fell more quickly than expected, developments that may pressure the Federal Reserve to try to stimulate business activity.
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Gold Prices Fall on Hopes Greece May Remain in Eurozone

Gold prices fell Thursday around the world as investor fears of a Euro zone collapse gave way to hope that coordinated intervention by global monetary authorities could contain and even cure the continent's sovereign debt crisis.
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Google Bolsters Android after Acquiring 1023 Patents from IBM

Continuing the strengthening of its intellectual property, Google acquired 1,023 patents from International Business Machines Crop. (IBM). The patents range from signature verification system for documents to display system with image scanning apparatus.
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NASA's Most Powerful Rocket Plans Revealed

NASA has disclosed the plans for a rocket successor to the space shuttle on Wednesday. This rocket would be the most powerful so far to take off from Earth. The design would cost $18 billion and is aimed at a 2017 unmanned test flight of the most powerful rocket since the moon race's Saturn V rockets.
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Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever Quits Physics Group over Stand on Global Warming

Nobel Prize winning physicist Ivar Giaever resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) on Tuesday, condemning the group's official stand on global warming. In 2007, APS adopted an official statement on global warming, which said that the emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate.
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Groupon IPO Back on Track: Report

Groupon seeks to go public in October or November, people familiar with the matter told the New York Times on Wednesday, a week after the daily deals website put its IPO on hold for a few weeks as it waited to ride out global market turmoil.
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Mariano Rivera Achieves 600 Saves

Yankees great Mariano Rivera has solidified himself as one of the top closers of all-time, becoming the only other person in MLB history with 600 saves. He is one save away from tying the all-time saves record.
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Former Hollywood executive John Calley dies at 81

Hollywood executive John Calley, who held high-level positions at three studios and later produced The Da Vinci Code movie among many others, died on Tuesday at age 81, his representatives said.

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